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I've been in this class called Classical Idea's and World Religions since school started and its a interesting class. We have a good amount of speakers and we watch several video's. We have covered a few religions and idea's. The idea section is one I like most, all the philosophical ideas and people. I find this to very interesting, a good subject of conversation. But so far I have learned one thing that I think is the most influencial idea, the beginning of every good idea comes from this. This phrase is "Defining of the Terms" I never really thought much about this until I signed up for this class. Defining terms.. thats what its all about. Before you can start thinking about anything you have to define it first. But there isn't any real definition to the topic, definitions change due to certain circumstances.

Lets say your talking about the human soul. You need to define "Soul" Well certain religions have certain definitions so it varies from person to person. Thats what makes defining hard to do, people have differing opinions and thats why nobody can really agree on everything. But thats just how things should be, there will never be a perfect peace among people, not everybody will reach Nirvana, and ou will always have disagreements.